The Worst Boxing Accident in History
The big fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manual Marquez is due to take place on the 12th of November 2011 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Any boxing match is always tense and a good time to remind ourselves of what can go wrong during boxing.
The worse boxing death, still engraved in the minds of many, has to be the fight between Duk-Koo Kim and Ray Mancini. They fought each other for an incredibly impressive fourteen rounds in Ceasar’s Palace, the outdoor arena in Las Vegas. In round 13, Mancini attacked with all that he had and landed 39 punches. In the next round, Mancini landed two straight punches on Kim’s head and he dropped to the floor. Although he was able to get up before the referee counted to ten, hence not being knocked out, the fight was immediately stopped and Kim was rushed to hospital where he died four days later. Following Kim’s death, both the referee of the bout and Kim’s mother committed suicide. Mancini did continue to box until 1999, but he was never the same again and suffered from extreme depression for many years, feeling he had blood on his hands.
This awful boxing incident changed some of the rules of boxing, mainly that the maximum number of rounds is now 12, rather than 15.
This is just one of many examples of boxing gone wrong, and it caused great discussion on the validity of boxing as a sport. The effects of this accident, as you can see, were far reaching and affected many people, even those outside the ring who were witness to this fight. A tremendous feeling of guilt fell over them, as they cheered for a man’s death, and many suffered from serious depression afterwards.
We invite you to watch Pacquiao vs Marquez live streaming and judge yourself whether boxing is to dangerous or not!